
Microsoft has again tapped the nether regions of the western half of the United States for software innovation. The company announced April 3 <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945609,00.asp">the acquisition of ProClarity</A> of Boise, Idaho, a company that develops business intelligence software. More specifically, ProClarity develops analysis and visualization software that already works with the Microsoft technology that gathers and portrays intelligence data and comprises Microsoft's BI platform: SQL Server 2005, Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, Office Excel and Office SharePoint Portal Server.